Time(Lapse)

When: April 2-18 2010
Price: free

Borges once described life as reading a novel linearly, and
dreams as reading at random. We may all be trapped riding the chrono-locomotive, like the prisoners in Runaway Train ("Once it starts, nothing
can stop it!"), but art has always sought to transcend time and violate its
ironbound schedules. In this group show, video artists Drone Dungeon (aka Hunter Longe and Dietrich
Kieffel) and Kim
Miskowicz shuffle and distort filmed imagery,
scrambling time and narrative -- even interposing a lensed
monolith between projector and screen for one film collage. LienaVayzman's
photographic studies of fallen, compost-ready lemons have a perverse beauty
once we master our initial urge to wish them buried deep in a cornfield. Katja Mater's "Summaries," multiple-exposure
photos that superimpose complete book texts into fuzzy, linear blurs, are apt
symbols for the age of digital scanning and speed reading. Time(Lapse)
runs through April 18 at Krowswork (480
23rd St., Oakland).
510-229-7035 or Krowswork.com